27 Jan
2020
27 Jan
'20
2:55 a.m.
Hi Pontus,
This thread makes me very happy.
I have a KS10 that I'm working on (quite slowly). The PSU is checked out
and working. Then console seems to work, I can deposit/examine to CRAM
and RAM.
Next step will be to load micro code and I've been mentally preparing to
tackle an RH11 emulator for the Unibone.
I'll buy one from Joerg as soon as the second batch is ready and me and
my KS10 will happily be guinea pigs.
And if I can, I'll help with development.
I now have UniBones ready to ship.
More on PM,
kind regards,
Joerg
28 Jan
28 Jan
8:06 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 4:25 AM J?rg Hoppe via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Hi Pontus,
I'll add that I started working on RH11 emulation on the Unibone last week,
i'm making steady progress (as of yesterday it's able to boot the 2.11BSD
kernel before falling over). 16-bit only at the moment, 18-bit will
require some infrastructure work but I'll leave that to Joerg :).
- Josh
This thread makes me very happy.
I have a KS10 that I'm working on (quite slowly). The PSU is checked out
and working. Then console seems to work, I can deposit/examine to CRAM
and RAM.
Next step will be to load micro code and I've been mentally preparing to
tackle an RH11 emulator for the Unibone.
I'll buy one from Joerg as soon as the second batch is ready and me and
my KS10 will happily be guinea pigs.
And if I can, I'll help with development.
I now have UniBones ready to ship.
More on PM,
kind regards,
Joerg
11:43 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 08:06:09AM -0800, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:
I'll add that I started working on RH11 emulation
on the Unibone last week,
i'm making steady progress (as of yesterday it's able to boot the 2.11BSD
kernel before falling over). 16-bit only at the moment, 18-bit will
require some infrastructure work but I'll leave that to Joerg :).
I just ordered a UniBone from Joerg, and my KS10 seems to work ok to the
extent that I can test it.
Is your code available somewhere? You will probably run circles around
me while I get up to speed on what is what, but I would still like to
set up a development environment.
/P
2 p.m.
Hi,
The repository is
https://github.com/j-hoppe/UniBone
UniBone is its own development platform.
The first thing you'd do after unpacking is to run script
./github-sync.sh
which updates all sources and starts a big recompile.
There's also a ./compile.sh for selective build.
Personally I prefer cross-compiling from a X64 Linux Kubuntu under
Eclipse. There the compile is 30 seconds instead of 4 minutes, I have a
rich programming environment and can remote-cross-debug UniBone code via
networked gdb/gdbserver setup.
Btw, UniBone needs about 2 amps of 5V power over the screw terminals, if
not run in a PDP-11 (or 10!). Do not try USB power.
For controlling the 18bit DATA path inside the software, I think best is
a global
#define DATAWIDTH18 (or similar)
to indicate the special KS10 compile. We don't need to switch
dynamically between 16 and 18 data bits, a special binary is all we
need, right?
kind regards,
Joerg
I'll add
that I started working on RH11 emulation on the Unibone last week,
i'm making steady progress (as of yesterday it's able to boot the 2.11BSD
kernel before falling over). 16-bit only at the moment, 18-bit will
require some infrastructure work but I'll leave that to Joerg :).
I just ordered a UniBone from Joerg, and my KS10 seems to work ok to the
extent that I can test it.
Is your code available somewhere? You will probably run circles around
me while I get up to speed on what is what, but I would still like to
set up a development environment. 
2:21 p.m.
Hi Jorg!
Don't think my emails are going through, do you have an order site? I'd
love one.
C
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